Productive with R & R

I woke at 6.30am but I enjoyed over an hour in my lovely bed before starting my day at 8am.

My usual start to the day with a cup of tea and play with Harley around the pool.

Before I made my breakfast, I set out the pictures, quotes and memes on my vision board which is now set ready for me to glue tomorrow.

The cricket (Sydney Test) had already begun by the time I sat down with my breakfast. It was an exciting start with wickets falling fast!

I did two loads of washing.

At 1.30pm Harley and I returned to bed where I watched some cricket and tennis, journaled, coloured in on my app and had a short nap.

It was Harley’s play time at 4pm so I left my room for 30 minutes and after play, he got his juicy bone and I returned to bed leaving Adoring Husband in charge of dinner. 

We didn’t have our usual Friday night fare of chicken wings because the butcher did not receive his delivery, which meant AH had to improvise. We enjoyed snags on the barbecue with coleslaw and garden salad instead. It was a fair swap.

The first BBL cricket match was rained out tonight. Apparently it was in Coffs Harbour and it’s not the first time that it’s been rained out there.

The second match started in Perth but I am watching Djokovic play the American, Opelka. Opelka is 6’11” tall! That gives him a very wide wingspan and a very powerful and effective serve! Djokovic is struggling and the score is 5-5 in the first set.

I need to focus on this match and send positive winning vibes to Novak 🤗

Nite all.

Getting Into the Year

In the dying days of 2024, I joined a photography group/club called 52Frames.

It’s a website with an accompanying Facebook page where they provide a new theme every week and you have to submit a photo. This week’s theme is “self portrait”.

I haven’t completed the challenge yet and I have four days up my sleeve! I have some ideas.

In my mind, I am also planning this year’s vision board.

I’ve listed my priorities for health, creativity, family, money, goals, education and what I hope to continue doing from last year.

Searching magazines and the internet, I’ve found lots of pics relating to each intention and a few meaningful quotes to fill in the gaps.

Over the weekend, I’ll choose my coloured cardboard, configure my layout and put it all together.

We’ve been flooded in for the last three days so we’ve had no choice but to remain at home, which is fine by me because there is tennis and cricket to watch, journaling to do, pics to colour in, naps to be had and blog posts to write!

Dinner was a bit of a mixed bag tonight.

Adoring Husband had last night’s leftovers accompanied by baked sweet potato, salad and focaccia.

BGWLBH had baked sweet potato with spicy turkey mince on top, then topped with fresh coleslaw and topped again with coconut sour cream. She also had salad (lettuce, tomato, capsicum, pear, avocado, celery, cranberries, pepitas and goats cheese w orange dressing) and focaccia.

I rarely eat dinner and tonight was no exception. I did have a pine/orange ice block after dinner.

There is both tennis and cricket on the TV menu tonight so I am surfing back and forth.

Nite all.

Day One of 2025

As usual, I took it pretty easy on day one of this new year.

I did spray the ensuite bathroom with my special clove oil concoction - especially on the grout lines to remove mould. It takes 12 hours to do the job so while I waited, I partially cleaned the remainder of the bathroom. 

Until I didn’t feel like doing anymore, so I lay on my bed and watched the tennis.

I’ll do what’s left tomorrow.

Earlier in the day I watched “Landscape Artist of the Year” and “Portrait Artist of the Year”.

I made my version of shepherds pie with a side of green beans for dinner.

There was Harley play, some heavy downpours of rain and some soft light showers during the day.

Djokovic and Kyrgios lost their doubles match at the Brisbane International.

Brisbane Heat are about to lose a BBL 20/20 match against Melbourne Stars (who haven’t won a match this season).

I am feeling incredibly weary and need to sleep now.

Nite all.

Happy New Year 2025

To end the year with interest …

All about WHO

A wonderful end to 2024 doing what I love most.

Playing with Harley.

Darts with Adoring Husband.

Watching Kyrgios and Djokovic play their singles tennis matches.

Watching BBL cricket.

Cooking for the team.

Let’s see what 2025 holds for me.

I want to feel more empowered and make better connections with like minded people.

I’m dusting off the camera and pumping up the tyres on my trike.

Swimming more laps in the pool.

Making better choices regarding my food intake.

Choosing ME and fulfilment.

I hope 2025 brings everything that you want, hope for and dream about.

Nite all.

Penultimate

This is the weather approaching us as I write …

It’s funny because even though this was forecast, there was nothing on the BOM this afternoon, so BGWLBH watered the garden!

There doesn’t seem to be any lightning and thunder accompanying this weather - oops, spoke too soon - I hear thunder in the distance.

I hope we don’t get blacked out again because the temperature is still hot tonight and it’s very muggy and humid. It would be difficult to sleep without the aircon or a fan.

What a great day of sport today!

Australia defeated India in the test cricket which puts Australia up 2-1 in the series with one more match in Sydney commencing on 3rd January. Today was a great win for the Aussies.

Djokovic and Kyrgios won their doubles match in the Brisbane International tournament.

I spent the day in The Bay with BGWLBH driving all over town to get all the bits and pieces that were on our lists.

Considering it’s school holidays, The Bay was not as busy as I expected. There were plenty of car parking spaces available, the queues at checkouts were short and the traffic was inconsistent - sometimes congested and sometimes sparse.

The weather was oppressively hot.

Harley was happy to see me and we got to play for a while without him jumping in the pool, which meant that he could come inside straight away instead of having to spend 2 hours drying off outside.

Adoring Husband forgot that it was his turn to cook so I generously allowed him to use my frozen spaghetti sauce. Spaghetti Bol for dinner.

I have fresh fish for tomorrow night.

Now it’s time for me to sleep. It will be lovely falling asleep to the sound of rain on the roof.

Nite all.

All Worn Out

It’s hard work watching cricket all day!

Admittedly, I was woken by exploding thunder at 2am which was closely followed by a blackout so the noise of the storm and heat and humidity made for an uncomfortable and less than sound sleep.

I get out of bed, change into my swimmers, make a cup of tea and take it, along with Harley, out to the pool area.

I chuck the ball a dozen times for Harley before stepping into the water myself. I swim 16 laps, throwing the ball between each lap.

I get inside just in time for the cricket to start but I poach a couple of eggs to put on toast first, then plonk myself in front of the telly, still a little damp from my swim but not wet enough to hurt the lounge.

I do a bit of searching to figure out what channel the Brisbane International tennis tournament is on, and discover that today is mostly women’s singles matches. While I do enjoy women’s tennis, my priority is Djokovic and any of the Australians playing, especially the Kyrgios comeback match.

I came to bed at 2pm for a catch up nap but that only lasted for 30 minutes.

Right now, I’m sitting up in bed watching Bouzkova (ranked 26 in the world) play the Australian wildcard Gibson (ranked 140 in the world). Gibson has put up a good fight but Bouzkova has just defeated her in the third set.

Brisbane Heat lost their BBL 20/20 match to Sydney Sixers. Ugh.

There’s an Aussie male playing tennis right now, against Goffin (Belgium). It should be a fairly even match but I plan on falling asleep to the sound of ball on racket.

I cooked nachos for dinner, using turkey mince with chilli con carne seasoning. It seemed to go down well.

Now it’s time for me to sleep.

Nite all.